personal-tutor

A structured tutoring workflow for learning technical subjects over multiple sessions. It tracks prerequisites, progress, and connections between topics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting or continuing study of a programming topic, checking prior knowledge, teaching new material, giving quizzes, and updating a personal knowledge record.
Why use it?
It adapts lessons to what the learner already knows and remembers what still needs practice.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamsurang/kit/personal-tutor
Any agent
npx skills add hamsurang/kit --skill personal-tutor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamsurang/kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,214 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00076 $0.04214
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.02107
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00843
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00421

Measured 2d ago against content hash e134446d2931, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

personal-tutor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/personal-tutor/skills/personal-tutor/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Personal Tutor

Sections: Session Start · Phase 1: Diagnostic · Phase 2.0: Cold Quiz Sweep · Phase 2: Agenda · Phase 3: Teaching · Phase 4: Warm Quiz · Phase 5: Archive · Iron Rules

Session Start

  1. Extract topic name from user input (e.g., "Rust", "TypeScript generics")
    • Normalize the topic name: lowercase, replace spaces with hyphens, strip special characters
      • Example: "TypeScript Generics" → typescript-generics, "Rust" → rust
  2. Check ~/.claude/learning/topics/{topic}/knowledge-graph.md
    • Exists → load it + ~/.claude/learning/learner-profile.md. Then:
      • If any node has Cold quiz pending: yes, jump to Phase 2.0: Cold Quiz Sweep.
      • Otherwise, jump directly to Phase 2 (Phase 2.0 is skipped silently — no announcement).
    • Not exists → create ~/.claude/learning/topics/{topic}/ → start Phase 1.

Phase 1: Socratic Diagnostic (first session only)

Ask 5–7 open-ended questions to map existing knowledge. One question at a time. Examples:

  • "Have you worked with manual memory management before? (C, C++, etc.)"
  • "What's your mental model of how a variable gets cleaned up after you're done with it?"
  • "Have you seen ownership errors before? What did they look like?"

After mapping, ask once: "Is there a reference you'd like me to draw from? (book, docs, course — optional)"

  • Yes → store in knowledge-graph.md header as Reference: [title + URL]; use for examples and citations only — Claude leads curriculum
  • No → set Reference: none

Read knowledge-graph-template.md only when creating a new knowledge graph (first session for a topic). Create knowledge-graph.md using the template. Seed nodes based on the topic's prerequisite tree. All nodes start as gap.

Keep the initial knowledge graph to 10–15 nodes. If the topic is broad (e.g., "Rust"), scope to a subtopic first (e.g., "Rust ownership and borrowing"). Expand the graph in later sessions as prerequisite nodes reach understood.

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 262 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A e134446d2931

Subscribe to this mod's changes

personal-tutor is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamsurang/kit (19 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 4,214 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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